At least five were killed and 11 wounded in an Israeli strike on central Beirut’s Bachoura neighborhood early on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement. An Israeli strike hit within Beirut’s city limits, not far from downtown, a security source earlier told Reuters....

The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop” in the Middle East. “Time is running out,” he told the council....

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei  warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath...

Hezbollah says it attacked and repulsed Israeli troops who infiltrated near the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon, and “inflicted losses and forced them to retreat”.